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FAIRE ATTENTION A L'IRAN PLUS QUE JAMAIS

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Les militaires et les gardiens de la Révolution d'Iran qui forment des terroristes pour mener des attaques à travers le monde ont commencé le 8 septembre 2008, 3 jours de "jeux de guerre aérienne" pour tester les nouvelles armes de défense du pays.

Lors de cet exercice, l'Iran fera des essais avec de nouveaux système d'armes de défense anti-aériennes et de nouvelles armes. Selon l'agence d'information du gouvernement,les manœuvres ont pour objectifs de maintenir et de renforcer le niveau de préparation des forces armées iraniennes, et de contrecarrer d'éventuelles attaques américaines ou israéliennes.

Dimanche dernier, le chef de la marine d'Iran a informé le public que le pays avait ajouté une nouvelle génération de sous-marins à son armada. En Juillet, les Gardiens de la Révolution (GR) ont testé dans le Golfe Persique des missiles dont les Shahab-3, ayant une portée de 2000 km. Le commandant de leurs forces terrestres Gen Hossein Salami avait dit en son temps "Nous voulons dire au monde que ceux qui mènent une politique étrangère avec le langage de la menace contre l'Iran, doivent savoir que notre doigt est toujours prêt sur la gâchette et nous avons des milliers de missiles prêts à être tirés sur des cibles prédéterminées."

Tout le monde sait que l'Iran est le principal pays dans le monde qui parraine le terrorisme international, formant, armant et finançant des groupes qui ont le même but de détruire l'état d'Israël. Ceci inclut des centaines de millions $ de financement annuel (le Hamas reçoit de 20/30 millions$/an- le Hezbollah 100/200 millions $). L'Iran a fourni au Hezbollah des missiles Katioucha, terre-air, et antichars. L'Iran soutient également les talibans et les groupes insurgés shiites qui ont infligé aux Américains, aux Britanniques, et aux autres forces en Afghanistan des pertes notables.

L'Iran a élargi son réseau de la terreur à l'Occident, s'appuyant sur le Hezbollah et sur des milices dérivées des Gardiens de Révolution (GR), pour recruter des cellules dormantes à travers de nombreuses capitales dans le monde. Ce réseau international créé et soutenu par l'Iran, combiné avec des ambitions hégémoniques et une intransigeance quant à la possession de l'arme nucléaire pose une menace concrète et préoccupe la communauté internationale.

De différentes manières, l'Iran constitue une menace pour diverses nations dans le monde.

Israël

Opérant surtout à partir du Liban, le groupe terroriste shiite Hezbollah est l'arme principale de Téhéran contre Israël et l'Occident. Malgré la demande de désarmement du Hezbollah de la résolution 1701du Conseil de sécurité de l'Onu, ce groupe continue à recevoir des armes de l'Iran. Et depuis la 2^ème guerre du Liban, l'Iran a rééquipé les caches du Hezbollah de Katiouchas, de missiles longue portée, de missiles antichars et antiaériens. Leurs dirigeants sont en contact étroit avec ceux des GR qui dépendent d'Ali Khamenei.

L'Iran soutient des groupes terroristes opposés à la résolution pacifique du conflit israélo-palestinien. Il donne 20 millions $/an au Hamas plus une somme de 50 millions$ depuis 2006, lorsque ce groupe a pris le contrôle de fait de l'Autorité Palestinienne. Les membres du Hamas ont reçu un entraînement intensif dans les mois qui ont précédé la prise de contrôle de la bande de Gaza.

Irak

L'Iran a beaucoup œuvré pour déchaîner la violence en Irak, en soutenant les insurgés shiites et en leur donnant environ 3 millions $/mois, en plus de l'entraînement et des armes de plus en plus sophistiquées reçus. Les troupes américaines redoutent notamment les explosifs pénétrant, responsables de 18% des décès d'Américains au combat, au dernier trimestre 2006 et de 30% des pertes dans les zones shiites. En juillet 2007, l'Iran a planifié une opération qui a tué 5 militaires américains, selon l'armée US. Aujourd'hui les milices shiites utilisent des missiles Fajr-3, marquées du sceau des GR-2007, comme ceux du Hezbollah. Pour maintenir la tension en Irak, l'Iran arme également les groupes insurgés sunnites.

Afghanistan

Subrepticement, l'Iran arme les Talibans afin de les inciter à attaquer les troupes de l'Otan et les civils afghans, bien qu'officiellement il soutient le gouvernement de Hamid Karzai. Le renseignement britannique rapporte que l'Iran fournit des pièces de mortier de 107 mm, des grenades auto-propulsées, des explosifs C-4 et des missiles antiaériens, utilisées contre les troupes britanniques.

Europe et ailleurs

Les officiels européens ont identifié plus de 800 terroristes du Hezbollah résidant en Allemagne et des cellules dormantes dans 20 nations européennes. Ces cellules constituent des centres de collecte d'informations dans les principales capitales européennes. L'Europe est aussi l'endroit idéal pour le Hezbollah pour collecter des fonds, qu'on évalue à 198 millions $/an.

L'Iran travaille directement et à travers des petits groupes satellites liés aux GR pour recruter des candidats à la bombe-suicide pour attaquer Israël et l'Occident. Le président Iranien Ahmedinejad a loué le martyre comme un "art éternel". Lié aux GR, le Comité qui commémore les martyrs de la Campagne Globale Islamique a une liste de 40 000 individus prêts au suicide. De même une section des GR est spécialisée dans le recrutement local d'Iraniens prêts au suicide.

L'Iran a des camps d'entraînement à l'intérieur de ses frontières et à l'étranger. Les Corps Islamiques des GR est une faction extérieure qui opère dans une vingtaine de camps d'entraînement, hors d'Iran. Le Hamas, le Hezbollah et des groupes shiites insurgés en Irak envoient leurs recrues dans ces camps pendant des mois pour un entraînement intensif.

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IRAN LAUNCHES NEW ROUND OF WAR GAMES

www.theisraelproject.org - 08/09/08

Iran’s military and its Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which trains terrorists to carry out attacks across the globe, today (Sept. 8) began three days of “air war games” to test the country’s new weapons systems.[1]

As part of the exercises, Iran will test its anti-aircraft systems and new weapons. The maneuvers are intended to maintain and upgrade the readiness of Iran’s military units as well as to thwart the possibility of a U.S. or Israeli attack, according to a government-controlled news agency.[2]

On Sunday, the head of Iran’s navy reported that Iran is adding a new generation of submarines to its naval fleet. In July, the IRGC test-fired its 1,243-mile (2,000-km) “Shahab-3” and other missiles in the Persian Gulf.[3] IRGC ground forces commander Gen. Hossein Salami said at the time, “We want to tell the world that those who conduct their foreign policy by using the language of threat against Iran have to know that our finger is always on the trigger and we have hundreds and even thousands of missiles ready to be fired against predetermined targets.”

Iran is widely recognized as the world's leading state sponsor of international terrorism, training, arming and funding groups that share the regime's stated goal of destroying the state of Israel. That includes hundreds of millions in funding annually to Hamas ($20 million - $30 million)[4] and Hezbollah ($100 million[5]-$200 million).[6] Among the weapons Iran has provided Hezbollah are Katyusha rockets, surface-to-air rockets and anti-tank weapons.[7]

Iran offers similar support to the Taliban and to Shia insurgent groups, which have inflicted casualties on American, British and other forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. [8] [9] 

Iran is expanding its terror network to the West, relying on Hezbollah and splinter groups of Iran's Revolutionary Guard to recruit and train sleeper cells in foreign capitals. [10] The terror network that Iran created and continues to sustain, combined with the regime's intransigence over its ambitions to become a nuclear power, pose an ominous threat and constitute a growing concern for the international community. [11]

Iran poses different kinds of threats to different nations and regions across the globe.

Israel

The Shia terrorist group Hezbollah, which operates mainly out of Lebanon, is Tehran's primary weapon against Israel and the West. Iran helped found, organize and train Hezbollah and gives the group $100 to $200 million a year. It also continues to provide arms to the group, despite the demands of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701. [12] Since the Hezbollah-Israel war, Iran has replenished Hezbollah's cache of Katyusha and longer-range rockets, and has supplied more advanced anti-tank weapons and surface-to-air rockets. [13] Hezbollah maintains close ties with Islamic Revolutionary Corps officials, who are under the command of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khameini. [14]

Iran supports Palestinian terror groups opposed to a peaceful solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. [15] It gives Hamas $20 million a year, [16] and it provided an additional $50 million after Hamas won control of the Palestinian Authority in 2006. [17] Iran also provided Hamas members with intensive military training in the weeks and months leading up to the group's takeover of the Gaza Strip. [18] 

Iraq

Iran has worked hard to fuel violence in Iraq. Iran supports Shia insurgents by giving them about $3 million per month in funding, as well as training and increasingly advanced weapons. [19] Of greatest concern to American soldiers are Iranian-supplied explosively formed penetrators (EFP's).The weapons were responsible for 18 percent of American combat deaths in the last quarter of 2006, and 30 percent in Shiite-dominated areas. [20] In July 2007, Iran planned an operation that killed five American servicemen, according to the U.S. Army. [21] Shia groups now use Fajr-3 rockets bearing the markings of Iran's Revolutionary Guard that are dated 2007 (Hezbollah also receives the Fajr-3). [22] Iran also stokes Iraq's infighting, and to that end, has begun arming Sunni groups as well. [23]

Afghanistan

Iran has shrewdly armed the Taliban's campaign against NATO forces and civilians in Afghanistan even as it publicly supports the government of Hamid Karzai. [24] British intelligence reported Iran is providing the Taliban 107mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, C-4 explosives and small arms. [25] [26] Iran also gave the Taliban surface-to-air missiles, which they have used against British troops. [27]

Europe and beyond

European Union (E.U.) officials have identified 800 Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists residing in Germany and sleeper cells in 20 E.U. nations. Hezbollah cells are utilizing key European capitals as intelligence-gathering centers. Europe serves as a popular location for Hezbollah operatives to conduct fundraising activities that accrue an estimate $198 million a year. [28]

Iran has worked directly and through proxies, namely small groups linked to the Iran Revolutionary Guards, to recruit potential suicide bombers to attack Israel, Europe and the United States. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has praised martyrdom as an "eternal art." [29] The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign, backed by the regime and linked with the Iran Revolutionary Guards, has reportedly enlisted 40,000 people to carry out suicide attacks. [30] A division within the Islamic Revolutionary Guards seeks to recruit Iranians to commit acts of terror abroad.

Iran maintains terrorist training camps within its borders and abroad. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), an extra-territorial arm of the Iran Revolutionary Guards, operates 20 known terrorist training camps and centers. [31] Hamas, Hezbollah and Shia groups in Iraq send fighters to camps in Iran for months and even years of intensive training. Through Hezbollah, Iran trains insurgents in Iraq. [32]

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Footnotes  

[1] “Iran to hold air war games beginning on Monday,” ISNA, Sept. 7, 2008, http://www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1193775&Lang=E

[2] “Iran to Start Three-Day War Games,” FARS News Agency, Sept. 8, 2008, http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8706181382

[3] “Iran Gen.: Our finger is always on the trigger,” CNN, July 9, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/07/09/iran.missiles/index.html

[4] Hamas," Council on Foreign Relations Web site, http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/, accessed July 2, 2007

[5] Aversa, Jeannine, "Levey: Iran 'central banker of terror'," Associated Press via Iran Focus, Aug. 28, 2006

[6] Wilson, Scott, "Lebanese Wary of a Rising Hezbollah," The Washington Post, Dec. 20, 2004, A17, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12336-2004Dec19_2.html

[7] Hughes, Robin, "Iran Replenishes Hizbullah's Arms Inventory," Jane's Defence Weekly, Jan.3, 2007

[8] Harding, Thomas, "Taliban 'using missiles from Iran to target British troops," The Daily Telegraph, May 22, 2007

[9] Gordon, Michael R.; Shane, Scott, "Behind U.S. Pressure On Iran, Long-Held Worry Over A Deadly Device In Iraq," The New York Times, March 27, 2007

[10] Levitt, Mathew A., "Islamic extremism in Europe," Testimony to the Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats, United States House of Representatives, April 7, 2005, http://wwwa.house.gov/international_relations/109/lev042705.pdf

[11] Thomas, George, "Iran trains 'ultimate martyrs,'" Christian World News, May 12, 2006,  http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/CWN/051206Iran.asp; International Institute for Strategic Studies, "Iran's nuclear programme," Strategic Comments, Volume 12, Issue 1, Feb. 2006

[12] U.N. Security Council Resolution No. 1701, Section 15, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4785963.stm

[13] Hughes, Robin, "Iran Replenishes Hizbullah's Arms Inventory," Jane's Defence Weekly, Jan. 3, 2007

[14] Byman, Daniel L, "Iran, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction," Subcommittee on the Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attacks of the Homeland Security Committee, The Brookings Institute, Sept. 8, 2005, http://www.brookings.edu/views/testimony/fellows/byman20050908.pdf

[15] Country Reports on Terrorism, Chapter 6- State Sponsors of Terror Overview-Iran," U.S. Department of State Web site, April 28, 2006,  http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2005/64337.htm

[16] Hamas," Council on Foreign Relations Web site, http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/, accessed July 2, 2007

[17] Iran pledges $50m Palestinian aid," BBC News, April 16, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4914334.stm

[18] Rabinovich, Abraham, "Hamas digs in for war in Gaza," The Australian, March 16, 2007 

[19] Partlow, Joshua, "U.S.: Iran, Hezbollah Training Iraqi Militants," The Washington Post, July 2, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070200174.html?hpid=topnews

[20] Gordon, Michael R.; Shane, Scott, "Behind U.S. Pressure on Iran, Long-Held Worry Over a Deadly Device in Iraq," The New York Times, March 27, 2007

[21] Burns, John F., Gordon, Michael R., "U.S. Says Iran Helped Iraqis Kill Five G.I.'s," The New York Times, July 3, 2007

[22] Wright, Robin, "Iranian Flow Of Weapons Increasing, Officials Say; Arms Shipments Tracked To Iraqi, Afghan Groups," The Washington Post, June 3, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/02/AR2007060201020.html

[23] Rubin, Alissa J., "U.S. Suspects That Iran Aids Both Sunni and Shiite Militias," The New York TImes, A12, April 12, 2007 

[24] Straziuso, Jason; Daniszewski, John, "General: Iran aid to Taliban is strategic," Newsday (Associated Press), June 12, 2006.

[25] Wright, Robin, "Iranian Flow Of Weapons Increasing, Officials Say; Arms Shipments Tracked To Iraqi, Afghan Groups," The Washington Post, June 3, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/02/AR2007060201020.html

[26] Blair, Tony, "What I've learned," The Economist, May 31, 2007, http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9257593

[27] Harding, Thomas, "Taliban 'using missiles from Iran to target British troops," The Daily Telegraph, May 22, 2007

[28] Levitt, Mathew A., "Islamic extremism in Europe," Testimony to the Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats, United States House of Representatives, April 7, 2005, http://wwwa.house.gov/international_relations/109/lev042705.pdf

[29] "Iran's new president glorifies martyrdom," Middle East Media Research Institute, Special Dispatch No. 945, July 29, 2005,  http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP94505

[30] Colvin, Marie, Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter, "Iran suicide bombers 'ready to hit Britain'," The Sunday Times, April 16, 2006,http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article706132.ece

[31] Razi, Farhad, "20 Terrorist training camps in Iran uncovered," Global Politician, March 1, 2006, http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1639&cid=2&sid=4

[32] Partlow, Joshua, "U.S.: Iran, Hezbollah Training Iraqi Militants," The Washington Post, July 2, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070200174.html?hpid=topnews

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